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It is hardly necessary to inform the most ignorant that Eng- 
land has repeatedly made war upon America; and that she was 
animated during those wars with the most deadly hostility to this 
republic. But, when England, baffled and defeated, was com- 
pelled to recoil before the rising and radiant energy of America ; 
when, cowed by the terrors of battle, she reluctantly relinquished 
her grasp of this country, England did not forgive the young re- 
public. On the contrary, she cherished then, as she does this 
moment, the deadliest hatred ; and malignantly resolved 

•' To Avork in close design by fraud and guile, 
What force effected not." 

She had repeatedly boasted that she was invincible — that she 
had measured her strength with the greatest powers in Europe, 
and reaped laurels of victory from fields of death ; that no nation 
had defeated her armies. The only people who can boast of over- 
whelming English armies with irretrievable defeat are the 
Americans. They, and they alone, blighted her laurels by com- 
pelling her to yield. It is impossible to suppose, that England 
was not profoundly mortified by this result, and did not regard 
the young republic with invidious jealousy and "visage discom- 
posed," 

"Oft changed to pale ire, envy and despair.'' 

If such an idea be formed, the facts of history will repudiate 
them. England did envy this republic, and envies it still. It is 
preposterous to suppose that England, in peace, did not labor to 
avenge herself — did not clandestinely intrigue against this na- 



tion — that she did not struggle by clandestine machinations to 
subvert that prosperity for which we were indebted to our tri- 
umphs in battle ; that she did not endeavor to beguile us to ruin 
by her craft, as in periods of war she bombarded our cities and 
butchered our patriots. This is impossible. It is admitted on all 
hands, that during the recent rebellion the English, iutolerant of 
American prosperity, labored to gratify their grudge against this 
illustrious republic, by fostering treason, and furnishing the Con- 
federates with the munitions of war. It is equally certain, that 
were it not for England there would be no rebellion at all. 

Immediately after the war of 1812, in which the armies of Eng- 
land were baffled by the hand of an Irishman before the battered 
wall of New Orleans — the Satanic aristocracy of England deter- 
mined to break up this republic by secret wiles and covert strat- 
agem — to murder the people with their own hands, whom its 
" hireling chivalry" had failed to destroy with the sword. With 
this object they raised a cry against negro slavery which they 
themselves had introduced into America. Their press teemed 
with publications 

"Thick as autumnal leaves that strew thejbrooks 
In Vallambrosa" 

which denounced American slavery as the scandal of the world. 
They hired the venal talent of Great Britain to elaborate philip- 
pics on this subject, which were re-printed in New York, and 
poured over the length and breadth of the republic. 

'• Which sent them winged with worse than death, 
Through all our maddening nation." 

Able and unprincipled writers, like Hall and Trollope, Marti- 
neau and Dickens, were picked up; paid well, and sent hither, to 
write libels and hold up the manners of our people 1 to the laugh- 
ter of the world. One of these itinerant vagabonds produced nine 
volumes of slander and invective. The pulpit aud the press, paint- 
ing, sculpture, music and the drama, were subsidized by a scoun- 
drel aristocracy, and enlisted in the crusade preached by England 
against American institutions. This hypocritical cry, which went 
up from Britain and filled Europe, was echoed on this side of the 
Atlantic and filled America. Novels, like " Uncle Tom's Cabin," 
penned by the loathsome hand of mendacious hypocrisy teemed 
from the press and deluded the imaginations of the young, as the 
diatribes of the pulpit swayed and embittered the sanctimonious 
elders, while the American newspapers in the pay of English abo- 
litionists swelled aery which was entirely uncalled for, by clam- 
ors which were entirely corrupt and venal. The consequence 
was that the South, galled and maddened by this eternal torrent of 
outrageous invective, flung off the obligations of justice and openly 
rebelled. The malice of England was gratified by fields flowing 



with blood, and the massacre of millions ; and she sent up a shout 
of Satanic delight — of fiendish exultation — which was heard with 
indignant surprise by the listening nations of Continental Europe. 
The intensity of her hatred was revealed by the exuberance of 
her jcy. It is simply absurd to suppose that the abolition of 
slavery was the object of the English. They cared nothing for 
the negroes. Their object was not the elevation of the slave, but 
the downfall of this republic. The most atrocious system of 
slavery that ever existed on the face of the earth receives at this 
moment the hearty approval of England. In Turkey, which is 
upheld by Britain, slavery assumes its most revolting form. The 
late Sultan had 5,000 slaves in his Seraglio, and every one of his 
wealthier subjects is an owner of slaves; but the anxiety of Eng- 
land to uphold that despotism can be equalled only by her earnest 
desire to pull down this republic. 

Now, if the hideous deformity of the horse-mouthed African 
elicit the sympathies of American " nigger worshippers," there is 
no obvious reason why the rosy beauty of Circassian females 
should not command commiseration. The latter had the merits 
and misfortunes without the defects and deformities of the negro. 
Be this as it may, the slave-trade of Turkey is marked by features 
as revolting as those which our fastidious sentimentalists discov- 
ered with horror in the African slave-trade ; and were the Wil- 
berforces of England, or Beecher Stowes of America, endowed 
with a particle of common honesty, they would have extracted the 
beam from the salacious eye of the tiger-hearted Turk before they 
attempted to remove the mote from the eye of the American 
Christian. This is what they would have done. But if the hypo- 
crites did this they would have damaged the interests of England, 
which they loved ; they would not have damaged the interests 
of America, which they hate. Happily for humanity, the Circas- 
sian slave-trade which those odious theologues culpably connived 
at, has been mitigated or suppressed by the manly courage and 
Christian benevolence of the Emperor of Russia, But still the 
traffic in human flesh, under the patronage of England, is carried 
on triumphantly by the tiger-hearted Turk, the most ferocious of 
human savages. This is what the philanthropists of America and 
Europe — were they not hypocrites — should have turned their at- 
tention to ; but this would not have damaged the United States; 
they could not have wrecked the home of liberty under the trans- 
parent pretext of freeing the slave. The purposes of envious 
England could not have been realized through their instrumen- 
tality. Hence they abstained from intermeddling with Turkey ? 
Were it not for this criminal backsliding — this reprehensible 
tenderness towards English interests, some of those able pens 
Avich limned the sufferings of the African would, perhaps, have 
painted the young Greek boy writhing in agony and screaming 
with torture under the emasculating knife of the bloodthirsty 



Mussulman.* The yells of pain which the savage operation ex- 
torted from the classic lips of beautiful youths would have been 
heard in every city of this republic, if the honesty were equiva- 
lent to the talent of our literati. These gifted masters of pencraft 
would not have been exclusively engrossed by the woolly-heads 
and horse-mouths of the uncouth savages of barbarous Africa. 
They would have found a charm in the resplendent eyes, the 
ample foreheads, the silky hair, the faultless features of the gifted 
children of intellectual Greece. It seems evident from all this 
that England's outcry against negro slavery was profoundly hypo- 
critical ; for if the suppression of slavery were the real object of 
her philanthropy, she would have found on the shores of the Bos- 
phorus objects of commiseration more worthy of Christian sym- 
pathy — she would not have labored to prop up the sanguinary- 
despotism of Turkey as energetically as she labored to subvert the 
benevolent Republic of America. But American liberty, not negro 
bondage, was the true object of England's aversion. She sought 
to rob the exile of an asylum — not to relieve the negro from a 
chain. 

Were the statesmen of America as able and far-sighted as those 
of England they would not have allowed the fires of civil war to 
be kindled in their country by the veiled hands of Great Britain. 
Instead of suffering their country to be made the theatre of hos- 
tilities, they would (if they were patriots) have anticipated that 
incendiary power. They would not have culpably sacrificed the 
interests of America to those of Great Britain. They would have 
got up a rebellion in Ireland instead of stupidly allowing Eng- 
land to kindle a rebellion in Louisiana. This they could have 
easily done. Failing to do their duty they are responsible for the 
oceans of American blood shed in the late civil war. They should 
have prevented that waste of blood and treasure by laming and 
crippling the worst enemy of republican liberty ; but they failed 
to do so. Injustice to such men we must say that they shrank 
from espousing the Irish cause because it was not genteel; a mo- 
tive worthy of American statesmen ;|;but they did not shrink for 
a moment from the withering imputation of perfidy to American 
interests. An accurate estimate of their abilities may be gath- 
ered from the damning fact that they proclaimed in the loudest 
tone, non-interference in the affairs of foreign States to be the 
duty of America, but they took no pains to prevent the mischiev- 
ous interference of Britain in their own. Their incapacity 
as statesmen may be estimated by this circumstance. They pro- 
claimed the doctrine of non-interference, but they never did — 
they never could realize it. Their incapacity was too great. This 
republic interferes with every monarchy on earth. It is a stand- 
ing menace to every aristocracy. And our men have the stu- 

*See statement laid before the International Consular Commission by the. chiefs 
of the Berzegovinian insurgents, 



pidity to say they will not interfere ! Was there ever such absur- 
dity ? They proclaim themselves, with the utmost self-compla- 
cency — amid the laughter of the world — capable of performing 
the impossible. Had they no duty to perform to America? Was 
the safety of their fellow-citizens — their lives and property — of 
no value in their eyes? What were they appointed for ? They 
should have known — what is obvious to the world — that the exist- 
ence of the United States is incompatible with that of England, 
as the existence of the British monarchy is incompatible with the 
United States. Every Bauer who sends ten dollars to his kins- 
men in Valeriana 1 — which he never could accumulate at home — 
silently protests against monarchy — silently convinces his country- 
men of the advantages of republicanism. His ten dollars are an 
intervention ; they nullify the policy of our presidential im- 
postors. 

The statesmen who' originated the doctrine of non-intervention 
were bound as patriots and honest men to devise a means of rend- 
ering that doctrine harmless to the United States It was their 
duty to see that no danger resulted to the republic. When they 
tied the hands of America they were bound to watch and see that 
a skulking enemy — venomous and vigilant — did not avail himself 
of her helplessness to crawl cautiously behind and strike her 
clandestinely in the back ! They must have known that the du- 
ties of a patriot are not satisfactorily accomplished when he 
skulks into cowardly inactivity. That he has more to do than sit 
down ; that he should have genius enough to excogitate a means 
of warding off the evil consequences of his dastardly policy. That 
he should not allow his caution to overmatch his wisdom. He 
should not suffer an invidious enemy, availing herself of his fa- 
tuity, to plunge his country into an ocean of blood by basely at- 
tempting, in furtherance of foreign interests, to curry favor with 
the irreconcilable. He should have capacity to understand that 
choice is impossible to men in his position. America must be the 
hammer or the anvil. I say nothing of the claims of humanity — 
the statesmen of America — the base and stupid, the cunning and 
corrupt, are insensible to those claims. To their selfishness and 
turpitude humanity is a word without meaning. It would be 
vain to speak ot it to them. Nevertheless, I must say that if the 
hundreth part of the sympathy which was lavished on the sleek 
and well ted blacks had been given to the famishing people of 
Ireland the horrors of the late rebellion in the South would have 
been spared to the United States. Humanity and justice would 
have proved, in this case at least, the best policy. But, replete with 
English prejudices, American statesmen deemed it hard to help 
Ireland up to liberty, though they had no reluctance to allow 
English intrigue to plunge America into civil war. On the whole 
I must say, in common justice to those men, that the policy of 
American statesmen with reference to Ireland has been as wise 



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and enlightened as the theology of their philosophic ancestors 
who burned witches at Salem. 

It has been said that in the character of a great man we invari- 
ably detect something of the child. But however carefully we 
peruse the character of our political swindlers we rarely detect a 
childish trait in their idiosyncracy. They are cunning but not 
wise. The men who succeed in making themselves rich — by 
pocketing public money — will be sure to fail in making their 
country great by warding of " the long aimed blows " of the old 
" sea wolf." The most characteristic trait in the history of Ameri- 
can statesmen is that they sacrificed millions of human lives — 
killed like flies — and millions of American property burned like 
tinder — to the scornful refinement which fastidiously turned away 
from the vulgar brogue of the Irishman. They were certainly 
men worthy of the contempt and scorn with which indignant 
Europe has visited their base and narrow capacities. They re- 
mind one of that pagan people mentioned by Elien, who sacri- 
ficed an ox to a fly. 

It may, of course, be alleged that under the guidance aud 
government of these men the prosperity of the States lta<; been 
eminently brilliant. It is susceptible of proof, however, that 
America has been prosperous, not in consequence of their wisdom, 
but in spite of their incapacity. When we consider the physical 
advantages which America enjoys, her ample rivers, her fertile 
prairies, her noble forests, her salubrious climate, the extent of 
her sea coast and the capacity of her harbors, her mines, her 
fisheries and fertile soil — above all, if we consider the virtues of 
her people — so intrepid in war and so orderly in peace, so untiring 
in labor, so fearless in navigation, so daring in enterprise, so in- 
genious in discovery, so prolific of invention, so indefatigable in 
commerce, the wonder will be, not that America is great, but that 
her magnitude is not infinitely more colossal. If we consider 
the peculations of her statesmen, we are astonished that she is 
not poor; if we consider her resources, we are amazed that she is 
not rich. 

We should be glad if it depended upon us to apprise our 
statesmen . of a fact which they are at present entirely un- 
acquainted with — that Europe contains a country named Ireland. 
That European country is an island " with her back unto Britain 
her face to the West.'" This is a very important truth which 
American statesmen, for very solid reasons, are intentionally 
blind to ; and " none are so blind as those who will not see." To 
see Ireland would be to profit America; to ignore it is to profit 
Great Britain ; and. of course, Americans filially prefer the 
interests of the '-Mother Country" to those of the colonial 
daughter. Ireland, they must know, contains five millions of in- 
habitants. Now it is a curious fact that the most famous nations 
in the ancient world were in population and extent of territory, 



inferior to Ireland. Macedonia, the native country of Alexander 
the Great — the conqueror of the world, contained in the meridian 
of its glory, but one million of inhabitants. 

The Republic of Carthage, the great rival of Rome, occupied 
a territory in Northern Africa little more extensive than modern 
Portugal. Holland, when, with the assistance of England, she 
shook off the yoke of Spain and bade defiance to the armies and 
navies of the greatest power in the world, was hardly more ex- 
tensive or populous than Ulster in Jreland. When Prussia, in the 
last century, under the leadership of her immortal Frederick, 
encountered France, Austria, Prussia and Sweden, fought them 
single handed and vindicated her supremacy, she had only hall 
the population of Ireland, or two millions two hundred and forty 
thousand inhabitants (2,240,000). Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, 
Sweden, Holland, Bavaria, Switzerland, Saxony, Greece and Pied- 
mont are all inferior in population and extent to Ireland. They 
are incapable of mustering the same number of fighting men. 
They are inferior in revenues, resources and the natural power of 
defending their liberties. There are only six kingdoms in Europe 
which surpass Ireland in size, fertility, revenue and population. 
These are France, Britain, Austria, Russia, Spain and Germany. 
But of these one at least, Austria, is made up of conflicting 
populations — a heterogeneous mass of discordant elements, and 
may at any moment break up into scattered and independent 
nations. It would be no exaggeration to say that there are only 
five countries in Europe superior to Ireland. 

Ireland is larger than Portugal by 4,649 square miles. She 
surpasses Bavaria and Saxony combined by 4,473 square miles. 
She exceeds Switzerland, Belgium and Holland, taken in mass 
and considered as but one territory, by 1,429 square miles. In 
short, there are fifteen independent States in Europe which are 
inferior in extent and population; eighteen which are inferior in 
population alone. At least such was the case a few years ago. 

The source of Ireland's calamities is the profound knowledge 
of her resources which the statesmen of England (always superior 
to those of America) possess. They know very well, though 
Americans do not, that the commerce and merchandize of Man- 
chester, Bristol and Liverpool must skirt the Irish shore before it 
can arrive at its destination, and to secure the safety of their com- 
merce they beggar Hibernia. They know very well that Ireland 
has not only more harbors than Britain — she has more harbors than 
any other country in Europe. It is on this account that England has 
fastened a death grip on her throat and will not suffer her to 
rise, lest Ireland's elevation should be Britain's fall. It is owing 
to her deep-seated fears that the " oil sea wolf will not tolerate 
industry, manufactures or commerce, or even tillage, in Ireland. 
As a French writer said many years ago, when commenting on a 
well known passage in Tacitus, relative to the superiority of Irish 



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harbors : " Ireland, if she could shake off the British yoke and 
form an independent State, would ruin the commerce of Eng- 
land. But unfortunately for Ireland, Britain is too well .convinced 
of this truth." 

This was the opinion of Major Mitchell, writing in 1837 in 
Frazer's Magazine : " As an independent country,"' said the 
Major, "Ireland would become a citadel, or tete de po nt, from 
whence the forces of America, France or Spain could easily assail 
oui shores, and strike at the ver^ root of our life and power. Her 
excellent southern and western harbors might receive the arma- 
ments of our enemies. Her rich soil would refresh, her resources 
equip them and her eastern ports would send them forth against 
any part of our long and indefensible coast from Cape Wrath to 
Land's End. Without a navy, but merely by the aid of a few 
miserable privateers, she might effectually blockade Glasgow, 
Liverpool and Bristol, rendering St. George's Channel almost use- 
less for commercial purposes, and endangering even the whole 
of our western navigation. Ireland, as a separate State, would 
be a shield in the hands of our enemies, beneath the shelter of 
which a sword might be constantly kept pointed at the very heart 
of the empire."^ 

It is on this account — animated by mortal dread — lest Ireland 
should be utilized for American purposes, that England a few 
years ago plunged the United States into the horrible calamities 
of civil war, drowned her fields in blood and strewed them with 
carcasses, and filled millions of once happy homes with the voice 
of unconsolable grief and screams of intolerable anguish. On 
this account, too, she is preparing this moment, with the aid of 
President Grant, to plunge America into a religious war with the 
view of arresting our prosperity and extinguishing^our commerce 
and manufactures. President Grant, with English gold jingling 
in his capacious pocket, " predicted,'' we are told, " that in the 
next political struggle the dividingline will be between patriotism 
and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition and 
ignorance on the other.' To say that American statesmen serve 
English interests, in this way, without pecuniary compensation, is 
to insult their intelligence ; to assert that they do so for a bribe 
is to describe them as miscreants of the vilest type. 

Certain politicians in this country have been known to ask, 
" Are the Irish sufficiently educated for the enjoyment of liberty ? 
Are they worthy of freedom? "' But they forget that the states- 
men of Great Britain — the writers and orators of England — 
asked no such fatuous question when urging the liberation of the 
blacks. At least if they did their efforts were not arrested by 
the interrogatory. They went on in an untiring agitation for the 
abolition of slavery until the American public were bewildered, 
distressed and distracted by the hurly-burly which finally gave 
birth to the horrible and murderous apparition of civil war. 



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The reason of this is very obvious. In the English heart 
hatred of America is an ardent passion ; in the American breast 
the love of country is a feeble sentiment. As Peabody sacrificed 
his fortune to London, the citizen of America is too often ready 
to sacrifice the United States to Great Britain. The moment 
American statesmen are honest, England is ruined. Because then 
(should such a time ever arrive) they will cease to foster religious 
strife for the profit of a foreign country. As it is, the animating 
principle of a true ' ; Republican "seems to be — servility to Britain 
and indifference to his native land. Animated by this principle, 
President Grant invites dessension by predicting discord. He 
knows the old historic maxim that prophecies, if widely diffused, 
operate upon the public mind so as to produce their own realiza- 
tion. Hence, he aspires to figure as the " black prophet" of the 
United States. Grant is a military man, and he hopes to derive 
from war the perpetuation of his ill-omened rule. He knows 
that the Republics of antiquity — of mediasval Italy and modern 
France were subverted by successful soldiers. He cherishes the 
idea which the poet has so well expressed : 

Le ■premier qui fat roi, fut tin soldat heureux." 

He hopes to profit by the calamities of his country and to 
produce he predicts them. He knows very well that the British 
Government have opened in Canada the first act of the lugubrious 
tragedy which will, as he hopes, drown this Republic in blood. 
They have excogitated the Guibord affair for the purpose of 
awakening discussion in the United States, to provoke discord and 
call up confusion, and thereby paralyse industry and blight com- 
mercial enterprise. The Guibord affair, which has spread like 
wildfire through the length and breadth of America, is already 
producing an amount of commotion and hubbub that has been 
rarely surpassed. It is discussed by evangelical pens in the most 
uncharitable spirit, and dissension and dispute, acrimony and 
exasperation, have followed its introduction and will grow wilder 
and fiercer as it goes on. It is discussed in the public prints 
with a spirit the most dishonest and designs the most mischievous 
with the obvious and unmistakable purpose of fanning the flame 
and augmenting the conflagration. Now, it is as perfectly clear 
as the noonday that the fierce faction termed " Nativeism," 
that " Know Nothing " riots, tumult and disorder, invective and 
violence, will not promote the prosperity of the United States. 
On the contrary, they will arrest industry and advance England ; 
and, therefore, it is our interest and our duty to put them down. 
If Grant were an honest servant of the Rejjublic he would not 
pander to English avarice for the destruction of American 
interests. He would not stigmatize as " superstitious '' the bravest 
citizens of the United States. He would not aggrieve the friends 
while delighting the enemies of America; it would be his grati- 



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fication not to stimulate disturbance, but to foster tranquility ; 
not to sound the tocsin of religious war, but to enforce the observ- 
ance of law. 

We should never forget what President Buchannan said in 1860, 
viz.: "The long continued and intemperate interference of the 
Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern 
States at last produced its natural result." It produced civil war. 
This interference would never have taken place if it had not 
been stimulated by the clandestine malignity of England ; if the 
pestiferous literature of Europe had not poisoned the influential 
minds of the North. Some future statesman will possibly tell 
us, speaking of 1ST;"), "The long continued and intemperate 
interference of the American Protestants with the question of 
Catholicity at last produced its natural results." — that is, war 
and bloodshed, tumult and conflagration, and what is worse — if 
possible than these — perpetuity of power to General Grant. 

Prev'ously to 1S01 the Northerners hated slavery, and the 
English availed themselves of that abhorence to kindle the fires 
of civil war in America. So in 1875 the Northerners hate 
"Popery," and the English avail themselves of that antipathy to 
fan the flame of intolerance, create confusion, discord and con- 
flagration in America. In this way the Americans are out-witted 
and befooled. In both these cases, alike in 1861 and 1875, 
English Literature, calculated to exasperate, concocted to inflame 
the American mind, is the cause of American disaster. 

Now, if Grant were an honest man, he would not allow the 
English to work upon the weakness of his countrymen; he would 
not sutler them " to come at the blind side " of the Republicans. 
He would tell the English minister, in so many words, "If you 
create discord in America I shall excite rebellion in Ireland." 
This is what he would say were he an honest man; he would 
save his country, cost what it might. But he sees, or fancies that 
he sees, his individual profit in the coming calamities of this 
Republic, 

One thing is quite clear, some means should be found to relieve 
this Republic from the ruinous auddistracting effects of English in- 
trigues ; from the pernicious teachings of a subsidized press, which 
is bribed by British hands to misdirect the American mind and 
damage American interests. The avidity with which this press 
seized upon the Guibord affair and trumpeted it to the four winds, 
with the view of embroiling our citizens and pitting class against 
class ; the moral profligacy, the utter disregard for truth, which 
characterized its lucubrations, afford convincing proof that the 
injury of American interests was the object of the venal writers. 
"It is certain," says a New York paper, " that if the Privy Council 
of the realm (England), the highest tribunal known to the law, 
decided against the Catholic Church, that its decision will be en- 
forced if it requires all the military and naval power of England. 



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Reasonable men will also say that a decision from so high and re- 
spected a tribunal must be equitable and just. The Privy Council 
is sure to decide a question of this kind upon its merits as a 
matter of law and not from religious feeling, therefore, we repeat, 
that it is unfortunate for a Catholic Bishop to assume the position 
of antagonising the crown."' 

The profligate indifference to truth which the preceding para- 
graph exhibits, its obvious malignity and flagrant falsehood, 
prove to demonstration that the English party in this country will 
have recourse to any expedient ; will " make their arrows of any 
wood" to poison the minds, paralyze the industry and jeopardise 
the interests of the United States. 

The writer knew perfectly well when penning the preceding 
lines, that the tribunal he extols as " equitable and just," could 
Deither be just nor equitable, and that it is utterly impossible for 
the Privy Council of Great Britain to decide impartially .in such 
cases, and this, because it consists of members who have individu- 
ally sworn on entering office that the Catholic Church is " damna- 
ble and idolatrous." Now, the writer knew this perfectly well ; 
he must have known that the Privy Council had prejudged the 
case. He knew that they could not be " equitable and just " for 
this obvious reason. It was their solemn duty, if they were not 
perjurers, to decide against an institution prejudicial to mankind 
not only here, but hereafter. They could not be impartial, unless 
guilty of perjury. To act honestly as judges, they should for- 
swear themselves as Privy Councillors. This he must have known. 
Let us suppose for a moment that the proprietor of that news- 
paper was about to be tried for libel, and that a jury was em- 
panelled who had made oath on the holy evangelists that he was a 
political swindler, would he submit to be tried by that jury ? I 
mention this case as one of many, to show that the pro-English 
party in this country will stick at nothing to realize their wicked 
designs ; that they are reckless as to truth, heedless of danger, 
and determined at any risk to wrap this Republic in flames. This 
seems to be placed beyond question by the declaration of the 
writer that " the Privy Council," which is sworn to be unjust, " is 
sure to decide- a question of this kind upon its merits."* The 
mendacity of this writer is demonstrated by his other assertion 
that the Privy Council of England is " the highest tribunal known 
to the law." No ; the House of Lords is the highest tribunal 
known to English law; a tribunal to which George IV. appealed 
when he charged his wife with adultery, and to which a much 
greater man, -Daniel O'Connell, likewise appealed when menda- 
ciously charged with ' ; conspiracy to intimidate Government." The 
Privy Council is not an open court, but a private cabal, as its very 
name implies,in which atrocious international crimes are hatched by 
unprincipled scoundrels. The villians who paid American Indians 

*See New York Herald, Sept. 11, 1875. 



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to scalp American citizens were possibly Privy Councillors, and 
from that dark chamber of flagitious machinations issued the 
order which forbade in 1861 the exportation of saltpetre and 
sulphur, lest, by the manufacture of gunpowder, Americans should 
effect the suppression of rebellion. In a single year a hundred 
merchantmen, the property of American citizens, were captured 
by privateers, whose piratical rapacity was secretly sanctioned by 
this nefarious cabal. 

England in her dealings with America resembles the assassin in 
Chaucer. She is 

" The smiler with the knife under the cloak." 

She is the "ambushed foe" described by the poet: 

"Who to enmity adds the traitor's part, 
And carries a smile with a curse below." 

Her professed friendship cannot be her sincere sentiment. Her 
hatred of our nation does not depend upon her volition. It is a 
spontaneous and involuntary emotion which is not the result of 
choice. She cannot help it. It is the outcome of circumstances 
over which she has no control. It is contrary to the nature of 
things that Britain should be sincerely friendly to America. In 
every age of the world it has been the proud prerogative of Re- 
publicans to surpass in maritime enterprise the most favored sub- 
jects of monarchial governments. It is no exaggeration to say 
that the empire of the seas is the birthright of freemen. This is 
clearly proved by every page of American history. For skill, 
dexterity, courage and presence of mind, the American seaman is 
perfectly matchless, and sooner or later, by his incomparable 
merits, he must wrench from the hands of England the trident 
of Neptune, which is the sceptre of the world. If this be so, the 
prosperity of America must be the ruin of Great Britain She 
must gradually sink into the faded condition of a second rate 
power. The English aristocracy are perfectly conscious of this, 
and will avail themselves of every instrumentality to retard the 
destiny which they know to be inevitable. 

One instrumentality is open war, which they employed in 1S12 ; 
the other is secret machination, which they employed in 1^5<». 
They will convulse the Republic by internal faction which they 
failed to overturn by piratical war. They thoroughly understand 
the character of the Irish who are spread through this Republic 
like veins through the human body. During one hundred years, 
in a thousand " battles, sieges, fortunes," in Europe and Hindoo- 
stan, they have tested the military courage of this heroic race. 
They know that they will fight; and they are determined that the 
fanaticism of Protestant citizens shall gall them to madness, pro- 
voke them to fury, and light the fires of civil conflict. They be- 
lieve that to outrage their religion is to banish peace from 



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America, and with peace — prosperity. In this way they will 
avenge, in the disasters of the Republic, the discomfitures of the 
revolution. With this view they have craftily employed their 
hireling poetaster, Tennyson, to revive in doggrel verse and halt- 
ing metre, " the lie so oft overthrown." " Queen Mary, a drama," 
analyzed by every American newspaper, is calculated to fire every 
American mind. The' object of the drama is to impress on the 
Americans those fallacious views which the inquiries of Tytler 
were beginning so auspiciously to dissipate. Though we believe 
in the history of the world there is nothing more diabolical than 
the fiendish schemes of British statesmen, with reference to this 
country, and though we suffer from their Machiavelism, we must 
admire their satanic ability. We must respect the vigilant states- 
manship of Europe as we abhor the swinish drunkenness of 
Washington. It is not they who are to blame. They are only labor- 
ing in the traditionary manner of their predecessors, to serve and 
advance Great Britain. Precisely as the oceans of blood poured 
out in the Confederate rebellion rest on the heads of those presi- 
dents who did not, when they could, avert that calamity, by kin- 
dling in Ireland the flames of rebellion, and thus crippling the 
British monarchy (as it was their duty to do), so the human blood 
shed in the approaching conflict will rest upon the maudlin head 
of the inebriate Grant, as the corrupt and swinish incendiary of 
his native land. If that war take place, Grant should be im- 
peached, because the means of averting it are perfectly within his 
reach. The President of the States should be held respon- 
sible fur the tranquility of his country, which cannot be torn 
by discord if he does his duty. In short, American statesmen 
have a choice before them; they can jeopardize Britain and exalt 
America: or, they can enrich England and impoverish their native 
land. They can be Arnolds or Washingtons, but they cannot be 
both. 

The instrumentality through which England succeeds in dam- 
aging this country — in creating broils and paralyzing business — 
in firing the " natives " and infuriating the " strangers ; " in pre- 
cipitating the blacks upon the whites, and whites upon the blacks; 
in pouring the "milk of concord into hell; "in stimulating Pro- 
testants to assail Catholics, and Catholics to detest and abhor Pro- 
testants, is the pro-English press of America. The pro-English 
papers are the apostles of riot ; the propagandists of tumult, dis- 
cord and disorder. This is their mission. There are papers in 
this country working night and day in the interests of England ; 
preaching doctrines the most ruinous to America, the most bene- 
ficial to Great Britain. Telling us with astounding impudence 
and incredible audacity that " free-trade" is preferable to native 
iudustry ; that "solid money ; ' is the only true stimulant of com- 
merce ; that the blood-stained hand of England, red with the 
gore of American patriots, should be kissed and adored, and the 



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generous hand of Ireland, red with the blood of America's ene- 
?nies, should be cast away in scorn, discarded with contempt, and 
spat upon with disgust. Among these incendiary publications, the 
most mischievous, perhaps, are the so-called " religious papers," 
whether Protestant or Catholic; whether published by the Harpers 
on the one hand, or the Brownsons on the other. The crafty and 
nefarious way in which they seek to injure' America in the per- 
sons of her best citizens, will appear evident from the following 
extract from a recent number of" Brownson's Review? 

"If the Boston Pilot" says Brownson, "insists on glorying in 
our element, let it visit our prisons, penitentiaries, almshouses, &c ; 
above all, let it look into the reports of our police courts, and 
mark the frequency with which our element is brought up for 
drunkenness, and husbands of the same element for brutal beating 
and kicking their wives — not seldom even to death. It may also 
count the street Arabs belonging to the same 'element ' that 
swarm in our cities, and live only by begging and stealing — 
chiefly by stealing. There it can find ' our element,' as also in 
the emigrants from remote Irish districts who have never been 
instructed in the first principles of religion and morality, and 
hardly know how to bless themselves. * * They are too apt 
to forget that they are not the only Catholics in this country; that 
they are not still in old Ireland ; and that Irish politics are out of 
place here. As much as they profess to hate England, to be loyal 
to the United States, 7,000 of them in a single city who had ab- 
jured the British Crown, sworn allegiance to the Union and voted 
at our elections, in order to escape the draft in the late civil war 
denied their American citizenship and claimed British protection 
as British subjects. But enough of this, too much perhaps, and 
very much more than we would have said if such journals as the 
Boston Pilot and the Irish World had less impudence and showed 
more interest in Catholicity separate from Irish politics. What 
have Americans to do with Fenianism, Home Rule, and other 
like questions ? " 

The object of Brownson in writing the above is very obvious. 
The flagitious slanderer hopes to exasperate Irish citizens and fire 
them to acts of fury, which may provoke retribution and embroil 
the Republic. He is a disciple of Arnold, the traitor, whose par- 
tiality to England was as fervent as his own; while the people he 
vituperates — impassioned, vehement and sincere, are disciples of 
George Washington, the deadly enemy of British supremacy. 
Brownson forgets that a hundred thousand Irishmen died for the 
Union in the late war. Brownson proves to demonstration that 
the pro-English party in this country will stick at nothing which 
may jeopardize and lame the Republic. He is an incendiary of 
the most mischievous character. 

In the preceding extract Mr. Brownson says that " Irish politics 
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understand that what he means by " Irish politics " is hos- 
tility to England. Was there ever anything so insane ? What in 
the name of wonder made America " great, glorious and free," 
except " Irish politics," or in other words, hatred to English rule? 
It was by Irish politics, hostility to England, that America was 
rescued through the wisdom of Washington from slavery to 
Britain. It was by "Irish politics" that in 1812 she was rescued 
from the " Whiskered Pandoors and the fierce Hussars " of Eng- 
land. Is she not indebted for her existence, as a republic, to 
" Irish politics" ? Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Adams 
were all animated by what Brownson stigmatizes as " Irish poli- 
tics." The moment she ceases to cherish " Irish politics," that 
moment she is ruined. 

Mr. Brownson is fiercely opposed to that form of hostility to 
England which assumes the name of Fenianism. But he forgets 
that there is an American Fenianism in Carolina which abhors 
this republic, as there is an Irish Fenianism which revolts against 
the monarchy of Britain. He has no reprobation, no words of 
reproval for rebellion directed against America; he has the fiercest 
invectives for rebellion directed against England ; because he is 
a masked traitor. And why should he be a traitor ? Why should 
not Brownson be as loyal to the United States as to the "United 
Empire " ? As loyal as Irishmen ? " Perish, my country, so that 
Britain may be safe," seems to be the motto of this bastard Arnold. 
Why not love America which gave him birth, as well as England 
that can, and possibly does, give him money? Mr. Brownson's 
hostility to " Irish politics " is easily explained. He knows, in 
the depths of his heart, that were Ireland independent, and Eng- 
land crippled by the loss of this right arm, she could no longer 
set fire to the world and laugh at its agonies ; she could no longer 
foster the serpent brood who hiss at Catholicity, the Mazzinis 
and Achillis and Garibaldis. She could not torture and vilify his 
Holiness. This is what he dreads ; for the hypocrite in his heart 
is as deadly an enemy to the creed he professes as the country he 
inhabits. A power so nefarious as England cannot flourish with- 
out the aid of such scoundrels as Brownson. She cannot reduce 
America to the condition of Ireland without the help of such mis- 
creants. Precisely as in war she engaged pirates to fight her 
Alabamas, so in peace she has her Brownsons and her Danas, 
and other intense haters of the Irish race to conduct her foul 
vehicles of lying slander ; the one to rob and murder our people 
on the high seas, the others to foster prejudice, to create discord 
and poison the public mind against the truest citizens in this 
Union. 

Let me repeat , if American statesmen were as able as those of 
Europe, they would imitate Cardinal Richelieu, who, to save 
France from invasion, involved Germany »n bloodshed, and stimu- 
lated in England that civil war which brought a monarch to the 



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scaffold. They would have saved America at any risk. If we 
could have exchanged statesmen — swopped the ohnsons for the 
Palmerstons — they would have liberated Ireland precisely as 
England attempted to liberate the Confederate rebels. But 
America never produced a real statesman, of broad views and 
ample capacity. Americans are clever business men, but in in- 
ternational pulitics they are pe feet fools. They have been 
slaughtered in war and swindled n peace by the Machiavels of 
Britain, in a manner which reflects disgrace on their intelligence, 
and England is now preparing to swindle them again, and butcher 
them once more with their own hands. One thing is certain, the 
President who allows himself to be hoodwinked, outwitted, bam- 
boozled and "sold" by English statesmen, deserves no mercy from 
the citizens whom his incapacity, or crime, involves in civil war. 
Every honest republican hand should wield a whip 

" To lash the rascal, naked, through the world." 

As I said, the enemies of a nation usually adopt two modes of 
destroying it. One is open war, the other is internal dissension. 
In IS12 the English tried the first; in 1875 ihey are trying the 
second. By one or other of the?e appliances they hope sooner or 
later to shake this republic to pieces. The English during peace 
treat the Americans as the Matador in the Spanish circus treats 
the wild bull. The moment he flouts the wild bull with the red 
flag the creature loses its senses ; it utters a loud bellow and 
dashes at the undulating rag blindly and ferociously, and is 
knocked down and slain by the Matador; so the moment the 
English raise the cry of "No Popeiy," the American citizens lose 
their senses, they become frenzied, and dash at the Irish with the 
blind fury ot the bull. The whole country is convulsed, disordered 
and jeopardized ; it boils all over with rage and fury; literally 
goes dancing mad. At least this is what happened twenty-five 
years ago when Know Nothing lodges were established all over 
the Union by English agents, termed Irish Orangemen. In illus- 
tration of this I may quote what Senator Morton of Indiana said 
the other day : " I venture upon the bloody shirt, and though it 
don't amount to much (in creating excitement) it is rather better 
than other expedients, but when I hit the Pope a blow between 
the eyes aud denounce the Geghan bill, I do find something like 
a response. We must light the sectarian fagot." 

This is the way to jeopardize American interests for the profit 
of English malevolence. In this way industry will be interrupted, 
prosperity destroyed, tranquility banished, and the carrying-trade 
of the world — the empire of the sea — relinquished to the greedy 
ambition of England. 

The pamphlets written by Gladstone and canvassed so indus- 
triously in this country are a part of the satanic conspiracy against 
American prosperity which I he statesmen of England are so 



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lmsilv expert b concocting. Gladstone has never held office, and 
^»never P holdoffi.^ without the support of Irish Catholics m 
Parliament In writing these pamphlets he is cutting the ground 
from imder his own fee*. In attacking their religion he is blast- 
nThlTown prospects. No English statesman would make such a 
sacritice unless he expected, as a.reward, the rum of America. 
This i wha he aims at Gladst me writes in England to create 
con u'ion here. He knows that, American cottons sell in Man- 
che te American hardware- in London, and American clocks 
everywhere. He is fired by this knowledge to assume the mask 
of 7 Maw worm, and beat the « pulpit-clmm ecclesiastic with 
such maddening heat that the sound is caught up in America and 
resounds throu|h this whole continent. The avowed object of his 
mrtisans here is to prevent the '< growth of Popery," but their 
P „"l#ctTto prevent the growth of American manufactures. 
They know well that when people are piously engaged in pum- 
meUinTtheir neighbors' bodies for the good of their souls the 
purBSte of industry are neglected, and the gains of commerce 
Segued The present anti-Catholic movement is a deadly con- 
Scy which English, statesmen have anviled for the ruin of 
American industry^ In a word, the frauds perpetrated on Ameri- 
ctr^ Spiritualists "by Katy King were not more egregious than 
SfrSpSwtrateu by political swindlers, like Gladstone, on 
he "esm P en of the United" States. At one time tkysko^K 
people, at another they dupe; but at no time do they let them 

^conclusion, if Grant were at all worthy of the people who 
elected him, and the republic which he governs, he would medi- 
tate night and day on the words of the ancient patriot: 
" Timeo Danaios et dona ferentes." ( 
Judeingfrom his language, it seems probable that President 
GranthafeXed into I deliberate complot to ruin this republic 
for the profit and advantage of the commercial cia.se o Great 
Britain As in the late rebellion, the conspiracy of which Jell. 
Davfs was the soul destroyed the commercial marine jot Amenca 
-swept away our shipping-*) the conspiracy of whl « h ^» n f ^ 8 
the chief will destroy the factories and sweep away the manufac- 
turing indu try of the United States, if this be the .case-it such 
a conspiracy exist-President Grant deserves to be impeached, 
precisely as Jeff. Davis deserved to be hanged. 



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